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I think he takes the under because for over a decade it’s been the winning bet.

Putin uses ground to exact revenge.

If his complaint is blocking for powerplay time he sure won’t like Buffalo. Dahlin and probably Power are gonna monopolize the PP.

You may not agree with the statement that the board is unwelcoming, but we’ve had many new or fairly infrequent posters mention it. Your perspective isn’t the new guys perspective. I think we all need to accept that we aren’t as welcoming as we think we are.

Ugh. The corporate colors of an actual criminal enterprise. That era needs to be scrubbed from the team, not glamorized.

Not old fashioned. Risk averse. Making risk averse decisions is safe. But it never gives you the opportunity to have a player at a high value contract because you don’t offer the deal until both you and the players agent have a very concrete idea of value. It also results in the team affording fewer impact players because you’ve waited until their contractual worth is at their highest before locking them in. The reason TP is paying alot of money for a large analytics team is to make value decisions on obtaining players, and offering players contracts before their value had been fully set. TT is the first big test of the analytics team IMO.

Might be a bit of a red flag there. Will be interesting to see how this evolves.

We get a better sense of KAs risk tolerance with this deal. Obviously, he’s made a decision that Tage’s game is repeatable. It doesn’t signal we won the ROR trade, but it sure makes it easier to swallow since we are now pretty much certain that one asset in the trade stuck and is worth keeping. Signing a certain defenseman and him panning out WOULD signal that we just might have one the trade. *if you ignore that StL brought home a cup on the back of that trade*

Is Hutchins still a thing? Decades ago I bought crossover materials from them. edit- apparently not. No evidence of their existence on pgs 1 and 2 of a google search.

Z is a bottom of the roster player. I don’t think it is realistic to expect more than 15-18 goals from the bottom of your roster. Even the bottom of Tampas roster was 15-19 goals.

Z is as consistent as a clock. We know what we are getting every season. I think he might see a slight uptick in points given the team around him has a bit more offensive skill. I also think even the top teams need a Z in their lineup. His future here will depend on whether KA has his future plans set up around accommodating Zs salary in the bottom 6. Given we don’t really have another Z in the pipeline, he may get another contract.

This is an excuse for boorish behavior. There is a time and a place. This is neither.

Can we have a continuous improvement choice instead of a status quo or big time break as the only options?

I hope you’re up close. The small details you miss further away are worth the price difference. And even this old Man was smiling and laughing at getting doused with the soap cannon.

Crazy show. The stage show was fantastic. The set list was awesome. We got in line about 90 minutes before doors opened. We had feure zone tickets, basically front and center pit. Got thoroughly drenched by a rain storm while waiting for the doors to open. We got our spot about 4 people deep from the front rail, dead center. The crowd filled in around us, and it was really tight quarters by the time the opening act started. The US Bank roof was closed, which turned out to be for the best, but it did limit the pyrotechnics somewhat. Still, they call it the feure zone for a reason. The pyro effects were HOT. Halfway through the show I had a tornado warning pop up on my phone, complete with take shelter immediately warnings. The show didn’t stop, but you could see the storm raging outside. Didnt expect so much clowning from Till. He was really hamming it up. It was pretty damned funny. First time in decades I was at a show that had women flashing their tits. Didn’t expect that. It was a hell of a show. Kind of surreal given all the pyro, craziness, and a tornado raging somewhere outside.

Headed to US Bank stadium shortly for Rammstein. We’ve been in Minny since Thursday evening. Just left a British pub. Crazy energy in there with Arsenal on all the TVs. Hopefully the show this evening delivers. So far the trip has been awesome. Minneapolis is an awesome hang out.

If that news was out there on draft day and Buffalo chose him anyway……. How this plays out may determine my fanhood for both the Sabres and the Bills.

That’s pretty damned impressive.

Yup. Someone is getting a series of shots in her abdomen.

When viewed from north of here, Buffalo apparently looks like a suburb of Toronto.

He’s a tweener. The only way he doesn’t play more AHL games than NHL games is if we run into injury issues.

Are Sheehan and Larsson represented by the same agency? That would explain it.

Hence the gif I posted. There is optimism, then there is five 30 goal scorers optimism.

What is the point of this? Honest question.